Chapter 20

The search warrants would expire Wednesday morning.
While several possible exhibits were removed for forensic testing, including liquor bottles, work gloves, gas cans and automotive towels, the house and Frederick’s garage seemed pretty clean of evidence.
The handguns were all legally registered and passed Ibis with flying colours.
Nicole King was being cooperative with her interviewer, but she appeared to know nothing about the firebombing.
Her interview had been conducted simultaneously by Sgt. Law Zweibeck of J Division General Investigation Section.
Sgt. Zweibeck specialized in interrogation, and administering the polygraph test.
He was a short, squat cop that more resembled a werewolf than a man. He had dark curly hair all over his head and neck and fierce hazel eyes. He was meticulous in his questioning, and relentless. Nicole didn’t stand a chance.
She told him the same vague story as Glenny Frederick, about going to the Drome that Saturday night.
Zweibeck asked her to take him through her night, minute by minute. What traffic route she took from Eighth Street to the Drome? She fumbled the answer. He told her why and how her route made no sense. Who drove? She said Glen Frederick drove. Where did he park? She said in a spot on the side of Main Street. He told her there was no parking on Main Street that night because of the Ice Cube concert at the Convention Centre. What happened during the drive? What was said along the way? What was said when they arrived? Who did they speak to, what songs played at the bar that night?
He grilled her for four hours. In the end, she admitted owning the Glock 9mm that was found in the kitchen cupboard. She also admitted Glen Frederick had not been with her Saturday night. She’d stayed home all night
It was a nice admission. It proved Glen Frederick was lying, but it didn’t give Sgt. Digby near enough to charge him with arson, or anything for that matter.
Digby went to he rMoncton motel room at about four a.m. to catch some ill-deserved sleep.
Nicole King, thanks to her confession, would be charged in Provincial Court in the morning with one count unsafe storage of a firearm.
Glen Frederick would be kicked at 6, twenty-four hours after he was arrested.